A new task force will address key issues that will need to be resolved before the state moves forward with a major river diversion to restore thousands of acres of eroding wetlands in Terrebonne Parish.
The Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force will include representatives of landowners, fishermen, the oil and gas industry, communities and others interests in the region.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said the goal is to address long-standing and sometimes-conflicting issues in the basin and raise public awareness of the critical nature of these concerns.
“The irony of the Atchafalaya Basin is that while it is suffering from an abundance of sediment, the rest of our coast is experiencing a severe sediment deficit,” Edwards said in a news release.